This image is done on two 12 x 36″ canvases.

In Liberia, just before Christmas, cattle egrets would arrive on the Atlantic coast from their summer home near the Sahara. We called them Christmas Birds. The Christmas birds liked to roost in a big tree in the lagoon. It was said that at night, crocodiles would bump the tree and knock sleeping birds into the water and eat them.

In Liberia, just before Christmas, cattle egrets would arrive on the Atlantic coast from their summer home near the Sahara. We called them Christmas Birds. The Christmas birds liked to roost in a big tree in the lagoon. It was said that at night, crocodiles would bump the tree and knock sleeping birds into the water and eat them.